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Depending on your needs, you can rent a dedicated server with hard drives. For example, Hetzner has an offering of 10x 10TB HDDs for $200/month or so.

Disclaimer: I have never used Hetzner's services nor can I vouch for them.

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I've used them for the last 5 years. They are OK. Their network is not redundant (core routers) so you should expect some downtime at least once per year for several hours. But it's the only complaint I have. The good part is that you can buy several servers for 100-200 EUR and build a decent HA with fixed monthly cost. Our AWS bill was always hard to predict. Also, they have a VPS cloud service that is decent and we use it for non-core services.

As you said: Depending on needs

S3 is not a single host solution and will neither get unavailable nor will lose data if one particular host (or even the datacenter it is in) becomes unavailable. If you don’t need those properties then building your own hosts might be cheaper.

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